[linux-audio-user] Real-time kernel

[Ken Restivo]

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On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:54:15PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 16:47 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
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> > That's bleak.
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> > I bought a Mac Mini to do audio on. It's got the dreaded hda_intel chip. 
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> Actually that's the problem - there's no single "dreaded hda_intel
> chip", because the design gives the vendor of your laptop/mobo so much
> flexibility to screw things up.  Each laptop/mobo with this chip has to
> be debugged separately, based on the codec and how broken your BIOS is.
> 
> In general the cheaper your machine the more issues you will have
> because the bargain hardware vendors are more likely to skimp on QA and
> just ship it as soon as it boots Windows.
> 

Well in this case it's a Mac Mini: and the "bargain hardware vendor" is Apple Computer, Inc., of Cupertino, California.

And I doubt they decided to ship it once it booted Windoze :-)

More likely, they decided to ship it once it booted OSX. And I'm certain they did QA.

Come to think of it, the drivers are UNIX audio drivers, and it can't be impossible to reverse-engineer whatever goofy values CoreAudio must be dumping into the chip's registers in order to get it to, ah, record sound.

- -ken
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